Yeah people complained that we didn't get recognition when our team wasn't winning because we are Iowa State but that is just not true.
Matt Campbell Big 12 Coach of the Year (Annual Thread)
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If Clemson losses again and Iowa State wins I think we are absolutely in the discussion. Also, if Clemson would absolutely blowout ND I think there is a possibility there too.
This is certainly new heights for the ISU football program regardless of the outcome. Let's keep this train rolling!!!
CycloneErik
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If Clemson loses and Northwestern shocks the world, we have to be in the discussion.
Really, we'd have to be in the playoff, but there's an SEC team there, so it's hard to see them jumping us past that, even though they should.
One would think every vote would have gone to Campbell this year. There is nobody else you could even argue deserved it.
A Louisiana win against Coastal Carolina would be a good thing as well for our resume.
To me if this team goes into Dallas and beats Oklahoma 31-21. We are going to be in if Clemson or Ohio State losses. We will absolutely jump A&M with a win against Oklahoma by double digits.
I'm cool with winning Saturday and playing in the cotton bowl against a team like Florida that we can beat.
I really don't think the public has an appetite for a THIRD Clemson vs ND game.
I've been in this camp ever since FL lost. A&M got absolutely boat raced by Bama in the regular season and has one quality win. Even with two losses Iowa States resume absolutely kills A&M's.
I just don't see how the committee could drop ND below us or outside of the top 4 with a loss to Clemson! That would be a split between the teams (yes, Lawrence didn't play in game 1) and it would take a ton of reasoning for the committee to defend that decision and they don't seem to want to do that!
Or Bama vs A&M. Keep in mind though that the committee would be able to shuffle Clemson and ND so that one of them is 2/3 and the other is 4 so the only way a rematch occurs is in the championship game and neither one of these teams are beating Bama in the first round.
Agree...but it will take an ND win this weekend to avoid it!
With a close loss they absolutely stay in but if Clemson would blow them out then I can definitely see them falling out. That would put a HUGE asterisk on the regular season win over Clemson.
Yeah, every little bit helps. Louisiana getting a little payback on Coastal Carolina and winning their conference...
...makes that loss, which is still not an awful one, look incrementally better.
You figure they would only play again in the national championship.
But if they have split 1-1, I have to think both make it. Clemson is probably out with a loss.
I think ND might still be in with a L in the ACC championship at 10-1.
I think AL and ND are already locks at this point -- we are competing for the remaining two.
I get what you are saying...but realistically I just don't see the committee having the appetite to do that! Depending upon how the game turned out I think it would a 30+ point differential for the committee to even bring it up! The committee will see numbers and there are ND fans all over the country that will tune in to a game 3 in the playoffs. I don't want that to happen...just see it as the likely scenario. I do believe Clemson is a much better team than ND...I am just hoping somehow, someway ND can find a way to win this weekend and then we can avoid game 3!
OU will be our toughest remaining opponent, bowl, playoffs or otherwise (save Alabama).
OU is going to be loaded for bear, they know us and they are not giving up ownership of the Big XII easily. If we can win the CGG we deserve everything else we get.
I hope ISU is in this conversation every year. This is truly fun!
Except he's won it 3 times, and this is the first time we have finished in first. So that theory doesn't stand up.
